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CONCLUSION Our review identified some key factors associated with non-adherence to anti-TB treatment in HILI settings. Modifiable determinants such as psychosocial factors are under-evidenced and should be further explored, as these may be better targeted by adherence support. There is an urgent need to standardise definitions and measurement of adherence to more accurately identify the strongest determinants.BACKGROUND Childhood TB cases can be found using passive case finding (PCF), i.e., by diagnosing children presenting with symptoms, or using active case finding (ACF), i.e., by identifying children with TB through contact tracing. Our study determined epidemiologic, clinical, and radiographic differences between these groups.DESIGN/METHODS Retrospective cohort study of children aged 0-19 years diagnosed with TB from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2019 at a U.S. TB clinic, comparing clinical, radiographic, microbiologic, and epidemiological characteristics of children identified using PCF and ACF.RESULTS Of 178 eligible patients, 99 (55.6%) were diagnosed using PCF. Children identified using PCF were older (mean 8.9 vs. 6.1 years, P = 0.003), more often non-US-born (OR 2.29, 95% CI 1.12-4.67), had more extrapulmonary disease (44.4% vs. 3.8%, OR 20.27, 95% CI 5.98-68.64) and severe intrathoracic findings (39.4% vs. Bcr-Abl inhibitor 10.1%, OR 5.77, 95% CI 2.50-13.29). Children identified using ACF were often asymptomatic, had isolated hilar/mediastinal adenopathy, but had more availability of drug susceptibility data from a link to a source case.CONCLUSION Children identified using PCF had more severe manifestations, while those identified using ACF had greater availability of drug susceptibility data. Clinicians should be aware that clinical and radiographic presentations in children identified using PCF and those identified using ACF differ, and that the latter may be eligible for shorter treatment regimens.BACKGROUND Early recognition of TB symptoms in children is critical in order to link children to appropriate testing and treatment. Healthcare workers (HCWs) in high TB burden countries are often overburdened with competing clinical priorities, leading to incomplete presumptive TB screening. We assessed if implementing a community health volunteer (CHV) led presumptive pediatric TB mobile android application (PPTBMAPP) in pediatric outpatient, primary care clinics in western Kenya would be feasible, appropriate, and effective.METHODS We used a mixed-methods participatory, iterative approach to design and implement the PPTBMAPP during a 6-month period. We compared the proportion of children identified in presumptive TB and active TB disease registers out of all patients before and after the implementation of the intervention.RESULTS Of the 1787 children aged ≤15 years screened using the PPTBMAPP, 376 (21%) met the criteria for presumptive TB. There was a statistically significant increase in the proportion of children to all patients in the presumptive TB registers (97/908, 10.7% vs. 160/989, 16.2%; P = 0.0005), and a trend towards an increase in the proportion of children to all patients in the TB case register (17/117, 14.5% vs. 15/83, 18.1%; P = 0.5). HCWs interviewed commented that the application sped up the presumptive TB screening process.CONCLUSION Our CHV-led mobile screening intervention significantly increased presumptive TB notification. HCWs reported that the mobile screening intervention was feasible, appropriate, and effective.BACKGROUND Drug resistance poses a major barrier to global control of TB - a leading infectious cause of death. Depression and stigma occur commonly among people with TB. However, the relationship between drug-resistant forms of TB, depression and stigma are not well understood.OBJECTIVE To compare depression, stigma and health-related quality of life (HRQoL), among people with drug-susceptible TB (DS-TB) and multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB).METHODS A cross-sectional study of people treated for DS-TB and MDR-TB in four provinces of Vietnam. The survey included a stigma scale (Vietnamese Tuberculosis Stigma Scale), depression scale (9-item Patient Health Questionnaire) and HRQoL scale (Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Tuberculosis). Differences between the two populations were compared using linear regression.RESULTS Eighty-one people with DS-TB and 315 people with MDR-TB participated in the study. People with MDR-TB had a higher prevalence of depression than those with DS-TB (difference 17.8%, χ² 8.64). The mean depression and stigma scores were higher for people with MDR-TB than those with DS-TB (adjusted difference [AD] 8.6 and 7.6 respectively). People with MDR-TB reported lower HRQoL than those with DS-TB (AD -23.8).CONCLUSION Depression and stigma are common among people with TB in Vietnam. Strategies to prevent and treat depressive symptoms and stigma in people with TB are critical to a holistic, patient-centred approach to care.BACKGROUND There are no data comparing the 6-9 month oral three-drug Nix regimen (bedaquiline, pretomanid and linezolid [BPaL]) to conventional regimens containing bedaquiline (B, BDQ) and linezolid (L, LZD).METHODS Six-month post end-of-treatment outcomes were compared between Nix-TB (n = 109) and 102 prospectively recruited extensively drug-resistant TB patients who received an ˜18-month BDQ-based regimen (median of 8 drugs). A subset of patients received BDQ and LZD (n = 86), and a subgroup of these (n = 75) served as individually matched controls in a pairwise comparison to determine differences in regimen efficacy.RESULTS Favourable outcomes (%) were significantly better with BPaL than with the B-L-based combination regimen (98/109, 89.9% vs. 56/86, 65.1%; adjusted relative risk ratio [aRRR] 1.35; P less then 0.001) and in the matched pairwise analysis (67/75, 89.3% vs. 48/75, 64.0%; aRRR 1.39; P = 0.001), despite significantly higher baseline bacterial load and prior second-line drug exposure in the BPaL cohort. Time to culture conversion (P less then 0.001), time to unfavourable outcome (P less then 0.01) and time to death (P less then 0.03) were significantly better or lower with BPaL than the B-L-based combinations.CONCLUSION The BPaL regimen (and hence substitution of multiple other drugs by pretomanid and/or higher starting-dose LZD) may improve outcomes in drug-resistant TB patients with poor prognostic features. However, prospective controlled studies are required to definitively answer this question.
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